Sound Off, Feb. 18, 2013

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how one might want to toss out descriptions, let's be civil in our discussion and not liberal.

Minimum wage is not meant to be a livable wage. It is for starting workers like students and those gradually leaving the workforce.

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Forcing businesses to pay more will result in fewer jobs and ultimately hurt those people whose votes the Democrats are hoping to buy. Those few remaining employed will also be reduced to 20 hours to avoid compliance with Obamacare. All in all the current administrations' efforts to destroy the economy are working as planned. Congratulations.

The towns now have to be the bad guys and ultimately everybody will pay. Nothing is free. It may not show as a tax, but renters will pay increased rent etc. Malloy is just playing a shell game to divert attention from his destroying the state.

There are many individuals who live in housing complexes who are not subsidized by HUD. These people who go to work every day pay what is called fair market rent for their apartment. When rent goes up, these individuals will see a rent increase while the subsidized will have the increase picked up by us, the taxpayers.

We the taxpayers float the boat for housing, heating, telephone (and don't forget the ET call home free cellphone), food, medical, clothing. And, if Malloy has his way, a large tax increase while the welfare mentality crowd goes, way to go Dannel!

RE: Governor Malloy: The maneuver to eliminate the car property tax does exactly what the good governor set out to do. To the uninformed/misinformed it looks as if he is cutting taxes. To the middle class and "the rich" he thumbs his nose as he redistributes more to the have-nots.

Increasing the minimum wage is a great idea. Making the base pay throughout the country $9 an hour will assure all minimum wage earners of making a better living than they have been. Of course, each state will have the right to increase the base pay as they see fit.

The federal government is supposed to work for the common good of all. Considering the fact that the middle class and the poor has been devastated over the past years by an economy which is allowing the rich to get richer and the rest of the people to take a beating, it's time for the feds to act in behalf of all of the people.

Just another example of how the pin headed politicians and their puppets in the press do not have a clue. Given the economic disparity across this country how can one number serve as an effective minimum wage? Look at incomes in Mississippi and NYC or California. $9 means different things based on where one lives.

Broke? How can the federal government be broke? We spend more on defense than the next 20 countries COMBINED. A rational person would hardly call that broke.

As long as Malloy appears to be cutting, he succeeds in fooling the gullible uninformed/misinformed. Again, more pandering to the government dependent.